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Machine Name	: Altos 3086
Processor       : 68020 at 16Mhz
Memory          : Between 1Mb and 16Mb
Backing Store   : Cassette, none (see below). 
                  Floppy Disk, 1.2Mb 5.25"
                  Hard disk, 60Mb (basic), and up to 3x190Mb.
Firmware        : Rom debugger, and OS boot loader.
Screen          : N/A, uses a terminal.
Other I/O       : 20xSerial ports 
		  Paralell printer 
		  SCSI (not supported by os).
		  QIC-02 Tape drive (60Mb uncompressed).
    

I was given the Altos by a friend of mine when he had finished using it. It is a card based machine that runs the Unix Sys 5.2 operating system, and will quite happily run as a multi user machine. My example has 4Mb of memory and 200Mb of hard disk space (split over two drives). This is the machine that I have used to learn about Unix on.

Machine Name	: Apollo 3500
Processor       : 68030 at 25MHz
Memory          : 4Mb up to ????
Backing Store   : Cassette, none
                  Floppy Disk, 1.2Mb 5.25"
                  Hard disk, 170Mb and above !
Firmware        : Rom debugger and boot loader.
Screen          : 1024x800x16 and 1280x900x16.
Other I/O       : 3xSerial ports.
		  Domain Ring networking.
		  Ethernet network (3c505).
		  SCSI internal ran 60Mb tape drive.
    

I bought the Apollo because I used them when I was at University and they where nice machines. Internally they used a bus identical to the PC ISA bus meaning that you could use PC expansion cards in the Apollo providing you wrote your own drivers for them. My machine had two 170Mb drives one mounted in a seperate case, a 60Mb tape drive and a 1.2Mb floppy drive. This machine was unique in that it ran both Sys 5.3 and BSD unix at the same time on a user by user basis ! I no longer own this machine, but have passed it on to a friend.

Machine Name	: Sun 3/60
Processor       : 68020 at 20MHz
Memory          : 4Mb up to 24Mb in banks of 4x1Mb 30pin SIMMS.
Backing Store   : Cassette, none
                  Floppy Disk, none
                  Hard disk, any SCSI 20Mb and above !
Firmware        : Rom debugger and boot loader.
Screen          : Not sure, but greather than 1024x768, mono.
		  Also fitted with colour a card, with similar resolution.
Other I/O       : Keyboard/Mouse connector.
		  2xSerial ports.
		  Ethernet network (BNC & AUI).
		  SCSI for Tapes/Disks.

    

Bought at a computer fair for 5 pounds, unfortunatly without disk or, monitor or keyboard, and more importantly RAM. My machine is now populated with 24Mb or RAM, and I have built an external disk unit (in an old PC case) to hold the two 1Gb SCSI drives I use. The machine is capable of running either SunOS 4.1.1 or NetBSD. Basically this is your standard Sun unix workstation from the late 80's (mine is dated 28th Dec 1987) and is well worth having as these machines are very well supported by freely available unix software.

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